{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "\n\n# Representational Similarity Analysis\n\nRepresentational Similarity Analysis is used to perform summary statistics\non supervised classifications where the number of classes is relatively high.\nIt consists in characterizing the structure of the confusion matrix to infer\nthe similarity between brain responses and serves as a proxy for characterizing\nthe space of mental representations\n:footcite:`Shepard1980,LaaksoCottrell2000,KriegeskorteEtAl2008`.\n\nIn this example, we perform RSA on responses to 24 object images (among\na list of 92 images). Subjects were presented with images of human, animal\nand inanimate objects :footcite:`CichyEtAl2014`. Here we use the 24 unique\nimages of faces and body parts.\n\n
this example will download a very large (~6GB) file, so we will not\n build the images below.